Principal Investigator(s):
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Summary:

Prepared by ICPSR under a project to automate major
portions of the Statistique Generale de la France, this is a
collection of demographic, social, education, economic, population,
and vital statistics data for France, 1833-1925. This conversion
project is a continuation of one conducted in 1972, for which a
similar data collection was created, SOCIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND
EDUCATIONAL DATA FOR FRANCE, 1801-1897 (ICPSR 0048). The project to
collect and prepare these data was sponsored by two French and two
American groups: ICPSR and the Center for Western European Studies at
the University of Michigan, and the Fourth and Sixth Sections of the
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Conseil National de la Recherches
Scientifique in France. Both collections include data recorded at the
departement, arrondissement, chef-lieu, and ville level. In this
collection, materials from the vital statistics series were prepared
for selected years rather than for each year in the period from
1900-1925. The years that were chosen clustered around the
quinquennial censuses and also included (because of the violent
demographic dislocations produced by World War I) each year in the
1914-1919 period. In addition, some vital statistics for the
nineteenth century (1836-1850, 1880, and 1892) obtained from fugitive
published volumes that could not be located during the course of the
1972 project were prepared. The 136 datasets in this collection
contain: (1) French population, economic, and social data obtained
from the quenquennial censuses of 1901, 1906, 1911, and 1921, that
detail the composition of the population by categories of age, sex,
nativity, marital status, religion, place of residence, and
occupation, (2) industrial census data for the years 1861-1896, (3)
data on primary education in France for 1833, 1901, and 1906, as well
as data on secondary and higher education in France for the years
1836-1850, 1880, and 1892, and (4) data from a separate series of
annual vital statistics (Mouvement de la Population) that cover the
years 1836-1850, 1892, and 1900-1925, citing births, deaths, and
marriages in the nation.

Prepared by ICPSR under a project to automate major
portions of the Statistique Generale de la France, this is a
collection of demographic, social, education, economic, population,
and vital statistics data for France, 1833-1925. This conversion
project is a continuation of one conducted in 1972, for which a
similar data collection was created, SOCIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND
EDUCATIONAL DATA FOR FRANCE, 1801-1897 (ICPSR 0048). The project to
collect and prepare these data was sponsored by two French and two
American groups: ICPSR and the Center for Western European Studies at
the University of Michigan, and the Fourth and Sixth Sections of the
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Conseil National de la Recherches
Scientifique in France. Both collections include data recorded at the
departement, arrondissement, chef-lieu, and ville level. In this
collection, materials from the vital statistics series were prepared
for selected years rather than for each year in the period from
1900-1925. The years that were chosen clustered around the
quinquennial censuses and also included (because of the violent
demographic dislocations produced by World War I) each year in the
1914-1919 period. In addition, some vital statistics for the
nineteenth century (1836-1850, 1880, and 1892) obtained from fugitive
published volumes that could not be located during the course of the
1972 project were prepared. The 136 datasets in this collection
contain: (1) French population, economic, and social data obtained
from the quenquennial censuses of 1901, 1906, 1911, and 1921, that
detail the composition of the population by categories of age, sex,
nativity, marital status, religion, place of residence, and
occupation, (2) industrial census data for the years 1861-1896, (3)
data on primary education in France for 1833, 1901, and 1906, as well
as data on secondary and higher education in France for the years
1836-1850, 1880, and 1892, and (4) data from a separate series of
annual vital statistics (Mouvement de la Population) that cover the
years 1836-1850, 1892, and 1900-1925, citing births, deaths, and
marriages in the nation.

Access Notes

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Dataset(s)

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Study Description

Citation

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Demographic, Social, Educational and Economic Data for France, 1833-1925. ICPSR07529-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07529.v2

All data processing work in connection with the
project was carried out by ICPSR in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the
consultation and assistance of members of the Center for Western
European Studies and of the Ecole Pratique. The work at Ann Arbor was
carried out in collaboration with a closely related project under way
in France that was conducting limited but systematic comparisons of
the published data with original unpublished materials preserved in
local archives.

Arrondissement-level census data can be aggregated
to the departement level, and both arrondissement and
departement-level data can be aggregated to the national level. In
addition, for most datasets a national-level record that appeared in
the original sources was also processed. Variables identifying the
geographical units have been standardized across datasets to permit
the merging of information from more than one dataset. Thus it is
possible to supply only portions of particular datasets (e.g.,
selected variables) merged with specific variables from other census
datasets. It is also possible to routinely merge these census data
with the primary, secondary, and higher education materials, with the
industrial census data, and with the vital statistics data obtained
from the Mouvement de la population series. In fact, one dataset (Part
18) contains census data and some vital statistics data for the years
1900, 1901, 1905, and 1906.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: